Film Still Alice Julianne Moore plays Dr Alice Howland, a once-brilliant linguistics professor who develops early-onset Alzheimer’s and suddenly finds her own linguistic ability ebbing from her: Alice can see the words “hanging in front of her” but can’t quite take them. Moore by contrast easily

It is the best sex scene that you will see — pace Fifty Shades fans — in cinema this year. The heroine of Appropriate Behavior is sipping a martini in a New York bar when she finds herself picked up by another couple. They invite her back to their minimalist bohemian flat for . . . well, you can

You can almost hear the applause already. Next week Juliette Binoche will perform Antigone, Sophocles’ play about a murderous megalomaniacal ruler, in a new contemporary production at the Barbican. If recent tragic revivals are anything to go by, she is likely to emerge highly laurelled. When

Fashion designer Henry Holland, 31, grew up in Ramsbottom, near Manchester. At the start of his career he shared a bed in a flat with the model Agyness Deyn, and worked on teen magazine Bliss. A T-shirt sideline led to his own label, House of Holland. He has collaborated with Debenhams, and shows

Film The Duke of Burgundy You wait years for a socially acceptable S&M film and then two come, as it were, along at once. Sidse Babett Knudsen, last seen as the socially liberal Danish prime minister in Borgen, takes on a slightly less liberal role here as lesbian dominatrix Cynthia. On

Junk Food Kids: Who’s to Blame? Channel 4 ????? The Great Comic Relief Bake Off BBC Two ????? “Thyroid,” said Natalie with an air of triumph. Natalie was considering what had caused her four-year-old daughter Talulah to be so large that she couldn’t fit into clothes meant for a nine-year-old.

As the title of this book implies, you didn’t want to be a rhinoceros around the emperor Commodus. Mind you, you didn’t want to be much else around Commodus either. This, after all, was an emperor who renamed every month of the year after himself; renamed Rome “Commodiana” and who ordered one Roman

Last summer some students in California suggested their university should put “trigger warnings” on works of literature that contain upsetting scenes, lest they “trigger” adverse reactions in sensitive students (The Great Gatsby contains misogyny; Money contains Martin Amis; that sort of thing).

Film Inherent Vice Joaquin Phoenix stars in a film about what happens when a private investigator’s former lover turns up with a story about her new billionaire boyfriend and his wife, who plans to pop said billionaire husband into a lunatic asylum. All clear? No? Never mind. This star-studded

Thomas Cromwell’s children seem hale and hearty in one scene, dead in the next. What was the sweating disease? Alarmingly, no one knows. “It was called ‘the scourge without dread’,” says Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch from the University of Oxford. It is also, even now, without diagnosis because it